Netbird
The homelab in one picture
What a homelab actually is, and how my phone pulls a letter out of my archive at home while I'm on a train, without a single door open on the router.
No open port: how my phone reaches Paperless
Pulling an invoice out of my own archive from anywhere, with not a single port open on the router, and measuring whether everything really is encrypted.
Replacing Google Photos with Immich
15,237 photos and videos, six ZIP files and one weekend: how my pictures moved from Google to my own home, and why the new storage was full by Sunday morning.
Running NetBird yourself: the matchmaker that steps aside
A small server at Hetzner introduces all my devices to each other and then stays out of the way: what runs on it, how I upgrade it without risk, and which traps cost me hours.